If the wife isn’t going to be in, there’s either something in the fridge, a ready meal, or I go to the takeaway. Cooking really isn’t my thing. I can do poached eggs, but that’s the limit.
Effort above looks to take far too long.

@WCA it was meant as a message to you could leave her to say she has been missed, even if it is something as simple as an in joke you have together. My suggestion would be a curry go for something really aromatic.

Oh dear Scienceofficer ,it’s all just meant to be a bit of oldschool manly banter,and there you go highlighting the fact, that some blokes just can’t quite cope on their own. They now have no excuse for these childish regressions ,and you have forced them to try and come to terms with a world that has changed and moved on .I would love to add more ,but I am off to do a menu plan for next week ,and there is still a load of cut flowers to arrange . 🙂

That’s very nice of you WCA but I’m no hero. I expect most of us would do the same in my place, I can’t say its easy but after a while you just get on with it.
The worst part is seeing someone you love have almost everything they did taken away from them, hopefully this Op will stop her hands & arms shaking so she can at least eat properly and drink a glass of wine without wearing it.
And in typical bloke style I posted the wrong day as she goes into Hospital on Monday its just the major op is on Wednesday.

WCA – could you let me know in advance next time she’s away please? If you don’t mind, I’ll pop down down and keep you company for a few days. You can do the cooking, I’ll just keep pouring you more red wine

Mr Overshoot – hope everything goes well with the better half. As for what to do with yourself? Well…. I’ve heard it rumoured that if you look very hard on that interweb, you can apparently find pictures of naked laydeez doing rude things. I really should investigate it myself sometime.